Word: extorts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That indictment was only the beginning. A month later the grand jury handed up another indictment, charging Merritts and the six others with receiving $120,000 in kickbacks from a sheet-metal company and a school-equipment supplier. The second indictment also charged that Merritts tried to extort $30,000 from the equipment supplier by sticking a pistol in his chest...
...vans in which nearly one hundred thousand Eastern European Jews were murdered. He also served in Tunisia, where his major function was rounding up 81,000 Jews for forced labor under inhuman conditions. During the war, Rauff proved himself able in economic matters as well. He managed to extort, for the German government, a "fine" of 20 million francs from the French Jewish community...
Then Chee Chee turns the debt to a credit by asking an elaborate favor in return. Squatriglia is to extort from Chee Chee's lady friend, Nada, three I.O.U.s that Chee Chee had carelessly given her. Gradually, we see that Chee Chee's tormented introspection is but another role played before Squatriglia--and played for a calculated...
Agnew has labeled published allegations that he conspired to extort bribes from contractors, sometimes under the guise of political campaign contributions as "damn lies...
...vanished in reaction to an oil slick formed by the family company's offshore drilling operation. Then her father receives a ransom call, which would suggest this is a kidnapping. But fifteen years ago, Laurel was involved in a similar kidnapping which, it turns out, she masterminded herself to extort money from her parents...